Glove-fastener.



No. 647,889. Patented Apr. I7, |900.

J. D. STIRCKLEB.

GLOVE FASTENER.

(Application tiled Dec. 4, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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JOHN D. STIROKLER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE BALL AND SOCKET FASTENER COMPANY, OF

PORTSMOUTH, NEV HAMPSHIRE.

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srncrncATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 647,889, dated April' 17, 1900.

Application filed December 4, 1899. Serial No. 739,174. (No model.) i

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN D. STIEGKLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Glove-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce cation, and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof. zo Referring to the drawings, illustrating the preferred form of my invention, Figure 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 an edge View, of the blank from which my improved socket member is made. Fig. 3 is a plan, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation, of the socket-member blank, partly formed. Fig. 5 is a plan, and Fig. 6 a side elevation,0f the socket-'member blank formed in proper shapeto be driven through the fab. ric and into the button-cap, Fig. 7 is a .ver-v 3o tical central section taken on line 7 7, Fig. 5.`

Fig. 8 is a plan View, and Fig. 9 Van edge view,

of the blank from which my improved'fastener-stud is made. Fig. 10 is a plan View, and Fig. 11 a side elevation, of the fastener-stud blank, partly formed. Fig. 12 is a plan, and Fig. 13 a side elevation, of the fastener-stud formed in proper shape to be driven through and set in the fabric. Fig. 14 is a vertical central section taken on line 14 14, Fig. 12; and

4o Figl is a vertical central section showing the fastener-stud attached to the fabric. Fig.

16 is an underneath plan view, and Fig. 17 a side elevation, of a button -cap before the socket member is attached thereto. Fig. 18 is a vertical central section showing the socket member passed through the fabric and entering the button-cap, and Fig. 19 is a vertical central section of the socket member driven into the button-cap and through the fabric with is iirst formed into the shape shown in Figs. 6o Y 3 and 4 in a manner well-known to those skilled in the art, the holes 2l partly closing up, as shown in Fig. 4. The socket member is next drawn in with a spring-chuck to form a neck at 23, closing up the holes 21,as shown 4in Figs. 6 and 7, the completed socket member A consisting of a standard 24, flange 25, and neck 23, the standard having slits 22 therein and theV neck having slits formed by the closed holes 21. 7o

The button-cap Bis formed of sheet metal having a top 26 and base 27, said base having a shank 2S formed thereon,with a central hole 29 therein and a space 30 between the base and top of said button-cap. The base 27 is 75 divided into four parts by radial slits 31.

The button-cap B is attached to the socket member A and to the fabric C by forcing the socket member'A through a hole in said fabric and into the opening 29 in the shank of the 8o button-cap to the position shown in Fig. 1S. The socket member is then forced still farther into the button-cap until the top of the standard 24- strikes the under or inner side of the top 2G, when it spreads out into the space 30, 85 and at the same time the lower edge of the shank'28 enters and is forced into the neck 23 upon the socket member A, said socket member and button-cap when thus joined forming as a whole the fastener-socket F. The base of 9c the button-cap B being divided by slits 31 into four segments forms a resilient support for the neck of the socket member A, and said neck is also rendered resilient by the slits 2l, which in the blank were perforations 2l. 95

1t will be noted that the slits 22 on the end of the socket-member standard allow the said standard to spread into the space 30 and lock the socket member A to the cap B, the cap B and socket member A forming as a whbl'ela fastener-socket. l

The fastener-stud D is formed of one piece of sheet metal. The blank 32,t`rom which it is formed, isrprovided with perforations 33, Fig.

8, arranged in a circle about the center of said forming a contracted portion or neck at 34 and closing up the holes 33 to form slits, Fig. 13.

The completed fastener-stud D consists of a head 35, a standard 36, having a contracted portion or neck 34, with slits 33 therein, and a flange 37. The fastener-stud is forced through ajhole in ythe 'stock E and upset, as shown "inl Fig. 19, the 'flange 37 forming a finish on one side of thel material and the standard 36 1 spreading out, as shown, forming arim 38 or i 'a finishen the opposite side of the stock, the material E being firmly held between said:

flange 37 and rim 38.

and cheapness of the parts, the fastener-studV the fastener-socket of two pieces of sheet meta-l.

` fbeing fformed'of one piece of sheet metal and It willbe noted that the socket member ait 'thecontracted portion or neck 23 is resilient on account of the slits 21 therein and is 'rendered still further resilient by being supported Vin the 'resilient shank 28 on the button-cap B. Ido not wish to limit my invention to the details of construction herein shown and dea scribed, as it is evident to those skilled inthe 1 "entirely separate from each other.

VHavng'thus described my invention, what? of sheet material, a button-cap and a 'socket AI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat tener consistingof a single piece of sheet metal having a head, a standard anda flange, all so; formed and'cons'tructed that upon theappli`l cation of end pressure a portion of said stand- 'ard will expand and form' a rim or'second 'iiange betweenwhich and the said first-named Iflange the material will be held.

2. Astud member for a ball-and-'socket fastenerA consistingof'a stud formed from a sin-5 gle'ipiece of sheet metal having a head, a neck i ,andv two langes,one above the other, said AHanges serving to hold the material betweengl them and thus secure said stud member-to the.

material.

'tener formed from a single piece of sheet metal '1 having a head, a standard and a flange, said standard being adapted to form.,on the application of end pressure, a second flange or rim between which and said first-named liange the material will be gripped; n f 4.' A stud member fora ball-and-socket fastener Aformed from a single pieceof metal and having a head, a standard, 'and a ange, said standard comprising a contracted portion adjacent to said flange and an enlarged portion adjacent to said head, and which enlarged portion is adapted to'form, on the application of end pressure to said stud member, a second liange or rim between .which and the firstna-mved flange the material is gripped.

5. In a fastener, a` stud formedof a single piece of sheet metal, having a head, a stand- .ard with a contracted neck portion, slits in said neck portion, and a flange adjoining said neck portion. Y

6. In aV fastener, a stud formed of asingle Apiece of sheet metal having a head, a standsaid rneck portion, and a flange adjoining said j neck portion, all so formed and constructed Thel advantages secured by my invent-ioni; 'consist in lthe strength, simplicity, durability,

that wheny driven into a piece of material, said standard will expand forming a rim and holding said material between saidli'angeand rim, substantially as described. A

Y 7. A fastener-socket formed of two lpieces of sheet material, a button-cap, and a socket member, said'socket member wformed of a single piece of sheet material having a standard, an integral, onej-piece flange," and a contracted neck -portion joining said standardjto said flange with slits therein.

8. A fastener-socket formed of vtwo pieces ofsheet material, abutton-cap, anda socket member, said socket member formedof asingle piece of sheet material having a standard, an integral, one-,piece flange, and a contracted vneck .portion joining said standard to said ange,fwith a series of slits in said neck portion and another series of slits in the Atop of said standard. Y f j 9. A fastener-socket, formed of two pieces' member, said socketmember formed of-asin- `gl`e piece of sheet material having a standard, `1.. /Astud member for a ball=andsocket fasan integral, one-piece flange, and a contracted neck portion joining said standard to said flange, said button-cap'formed of a single piece of'sheet material having a 'top and a base with a shank formed to embrace the neck 'portion of said socket. memberwith a resilient pressure.

10.V Afastener-socket formed 4of two-pieces of sheet-material, a button-cap and a socket member, said socket member formed of a single piece of sheet materialhaving a standard, an integral, one-piece flange, and a contracted neck portion joining said standard to said ,tlange, with slits therein, vs aid button-cap `formed of a single `lpiece of sheet material `3. A stud member fora ball-and-socket fashaving'a top and a base, with a shank formed IOO IIS

.miese e base slitted and formed to embrace the neck portion of said socket member with a resilient pressure.

11. A fastener-socket formed of two pieces of sheet material, a button-cap and a socket member, said socket member formed of a singie piece of sheet material having a standard, an integral, one-piece flange, and a contracted neck portion joining said standard to said flange, with a series of slits in said neck portion and another series of slits, in the top of said standard, said button-cap formed of a single V'piece of sheet material having a top, and a base with a shank formed to embrace the neck portion of said socket member with a resilient pressure.

12. In a fastener, a stud formed of a single JOHN D. STIRCKLER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES S. GOODING, SYDNEY E. TAFT. 

